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University of Kentucky College of Law 620 S. Limestone Lexington, KY 40506-0048 phone (859) 257-1678 fax (859) 323-1061 Admissions Office (859) 257-3950

Welcome to The UK College of Law

Welcome to the University of Kentucky College of Law. We hope you will enjoy learning about our College, our faculty and our students. UK Law is a medium-sized law school with a long tradition of excellence in teaching, service and scholarship by an outstanding faculty. Our students come from across Kentucky and across the nation, and take legal positions with public and private sector employers in all parts of the United States. If you have questions that are not answered on our site, please feel free to contact us.



	Professor Lawson examines Kentucky’s persistent felony offender (PFO) law in The Kentucky Law Journal. more... Louise Everett Graham has been named acting dean of the University of Kentucky College of Law. more... UK Law Graduate to Become Chief Justice of Kentucky more... UK Law helps gives home to one of its own. more... Professor Connelly receives the Citizen Lawyer Award from the Fayette County Bar Association. more... The UK College of Law students make a difference participating in the Kentucky Innocence Project (KIP), to provide quality investigative and legal assistance to Kentucky prisoners with provable claims of actual innocence. more... Professor Sarah Welling elected to the American Law Institute (ALI), the premier learned society for legal academics, in recognition of her national reputation in criminal law. more... Both teams from the UK College of Law National Trial Team defeated competition from 26 teams to sweep the Seventh Region Trial Advocacy Tournament. more... Four students from the University of Kentucky College of Law Black Law Student Association (BLSA) won the Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Midwest Regional Competition. more... Partnership with UK College of Law offers live streaming video of oral arguments to Supreme Court of Kentucky. more... Law Student Reappointed to Council on Postsecondary Education more... Professor Bratt Assumes Role of Executive Associate Dean more... Professor Harding Receives President's Award for Diversity more... Dean Vestal Integral in Passage of House Bill more... Law Professor Published in Kentucky Law Journal more...